Now in its fifth year, the Red Ride Tour is slated to hit the road on May 13, starting in Vancouver.
The tour welcomes no fewer than 11 different indigenous artists, on 15 stops between Vancouver and Brooklyn, N.Y.
Co-founder Kristi Lane Sinclair describes it as “a mobile village of musicians hell bent on throwing parties and effecting change.”
This year the tour is also doubling as support of Sinclair’s third album Dark Matter. The Haidi musician says the new album “sounds like classical guitar and pain went into a psychedelic washing machine.”
Sinclair is one busy artist. Between organizing the tour, finishing her album and filming her TV show Face the Music — set to launch this fall on APTN — she found the time to answer 10 quick questions for us.
You can find those answers below the CBC Aboriginal exclusive premiere of her music video Kiki.
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1. Describe the Red Ride Tour in three sentences.
Red Ride Tour is a mobile village of musicians hell bent on throwing parties and effecting change. Red Ride Tour is fuelled by sweat. Red Ride Tour has the best shoes.
2. What does your new album sound like?
Dark Matter sounds like classical guitar and pain went into a psychedelic washing machine.
3. What are you most looking forward to on the tour?
The road forward! But really seeing all my friends. I mean every last one and making new ones.
4. What is the one thing you dread about touring?
Swollen feet! Is that something you say on CBC? But really, any suggestions for travelling feet?
5. What do you absolutely have to take with you when touring?
Derek Miller and dry shampoo.
6. What is something that no one really knows about you but the other musicians on the tour will find out about you?
A phobia of sharp objects.
7. Which book will you take with you to read?
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden.
8. Driving or the passenger?
Yet to be determined. I’ve always been the main driver. My wish was to have a Red Ride driver. But nothing comes easy.
9. Vancouver or Toronto?
For now, both!
10. Seafood or fast food?
Beet and ginger juice for these kids. Red Ride Tour’s budget includes a portable juicer. Red Ride Tour 4 hit a tragic speed bump when I ate buffet fish in Regina. Lesson learned. Lesson learned.
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